Word: halleck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rumsfeld was brash and inexperienced when he came here," recalls a Democratic colleague. "But he immediately started growing, and he never stopped. He was a first-rate Congressman." In 1965 Rumsfeld helped lead the "young Turks" who deposed Indiana's Charles Halleck as House Minority Leader. In his place they installed Ford. Says a Democratic Congressman hyperbolically: "Rumsfeld held the dagger that Ford plunged into Halleck's back...
...impatient colleagues. After the 1964 Democratic landslide thinned Republican ranks in the House, a group of Young Turks decided that a change of leadership was necessary to meet the challenge of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They urged Ford to run for House minority leader against Incumbent Charles A. Halleck of Indiana. After a vigorous campaign, Ford eked out a narrow, six-vote victory in the Republican caucus...
...prospects, Melvin Laird is probably Ford's sentimental favorite for Vice President. Not only have the two been close friends for 20 years but they also teamed up in 1965 in the intraparty coup against Charles A. Halleck that installed Ford as Republican leader in the House. But Laird's nomination might be viewed as cronyism. Moreover, both Laird and Ford are much alike ideologically. Nonetheless, the betting is that Laird will play a key role in the Ford Administration, either in some formal White House role or as the President's foremost political adviser...
...years in the House of Representatives, Ford stood for the same sorts of priorities the Nixon regime has always held. As a young congressman, Ford quickly won a reputation for trying to slash government expenditures--except for those involving space and "defense" programs. During his campaign to succeed Charles Halleck as House minority leader, Ford promised a new, more constructive approach to formulating Republican policies in Congress. But his own views, it soon became clear, had not changed very much--he could just implement them better. He supported moves to water down major civil rights legislation. He pressed...
...participants are still in high school. At that stage, Simon and Gagnon report, it is often the least popular students who engage in sex?and who find, especially if they are girls, that their sexual behavior brings only a shady sort of popularity and more unhappiness. Wisconsin Psychiatrist Seymour Halleck ascribes a "bland, mechanistic quality" to some youthful relationships, and Beverly Hills Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson observes that, "instant warmth and instant sex make for puny love, cool...